A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it.
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Examples for "deistic "
Examples for "deistic "
1 I shall close by giving a summary of the deistic belief:
2 The deistic movement was called into life by Lord Herbert of Cherbury (pp.
3 There is this difference between me and deistic philosophers: I believe; and I believe the Gospel.
4 The doctrines or religious code of the Masons are, as their symbols indicate, deistic and anti-Christian.
5 I should not term his fragmentary system ' deistic . '
1 Condorcet, another deist , was the successor of Voltaire in the Encyclopædic warfare.
2 He would have knocked down a deist as soon as looked at him.
3 He hated the insolent creed of the deist , and the ignorance of the agnostic.
4 They are real children; a child is neither atheist nor deist , he is nothing.
5 Vaguely deist , he saw in Jesus Christ only a wise man among the wise.
6 I realise that the paper which I have read on 'Was Hegel a deist ? '
7 A deist in belief, he abhorred catholicism; a worshipper of self, he longed for power.
8 Rousseau, too, was a deist -but he wanted to turn this outlook upside down.
9 So, was he a deist , like Voltaire and Diderot?
10 Am I talking with a deist or an atheist?
11 Can deist , pantheist or atheist invent a better one?
12 Of the four fellow-passengers one was a French deist , with whom he had many a debate.
13 The creation is the Bible of the deist .
14 The deist is an atheist lucky in classification.
15 There are three epochs in the empire of a Frenchwoman-sheis coquette, then deist , then devote.
16 He is a deist , his God an autocrat.
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